General features (detailed description):
- No programming required
- Free installation
- Complete ready-to-run ecommerce storefront software
- Powered by MySQL
- 100% open source code
- Works on Windows, UNIX, Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS
- User-friendly storefront (front end)
- Easy-to-use web-based administrative panel (back end)
- 24/7 Customer Support
- Free access to product updates
- Bulk products management
Design & Layout (detailed description):
- Easy design integration
- Template based design
- Ready-to-use skin templates
- Special product offers
- Compatible with major browsers
- CSS-compatible design
- Products and categories thumbnails
- Storefront homepage
- Basic content management system
- News publishing
- Customer survey in storefront
Localization (detailed description):
- Multiple language interface
- Multiple currency types system
- Editable countries list
- Editable states list
- Easy localization
Products catalog (detailed description):
- User friendly searchable products catalog
- Unlimited number of product categories
- Unlimited number of products
- Unlimited category nesting
- Enable/disable products
- Product stock accounting
- Category HTML description and thumbnail
- Product HTML description
- Product handling (shipping freight) charges
- Set 'Free shipping' option for products
- Append products to different tax classes
- Product custom parameters
- Assign product an image in three sizes (thumbnail, regular, enlarged)
- List price markdowns: list price (listed MSRP) and current price (your price)
- Customers' products ratings
- Related products / cross selling
- Real-time price list
- Customer has the ability to customize products sort order (e.g. sort by product name, price)
- Product search in the backend
- Basic search by products title and description
- Customer product reviews/discussions
- Import products from a CSV file (Excel) popular!
- Export products to a CSV file (Excel)
- Synchronizing tools
Shopping cart & Ordering (detailed description):
- Comprehensive orders management engine
- Shopping cart for members and guests
- Define minimal order quantities for products
- Define minimal order amount
- Shopping cart content sidebar
- Customizable customer registration form
- Shopping cart can be opened in the main store window or in a popup window
- Ability to create a web catalog without ordering function
- Step-by-step checkout
- Secure checkout (SSL)
- Switchable stock level control
- Customizable order statuses list
- All orders are stored in the database
- Orders email notifications for administrator and customer
- Online order management tools
- Orders search in the backend
- Printable invoices
SEO & Marketing (detailed description):
- Search Engine Optimized pages (SEO)
- Basic newsletter engine
- Define META keywords and description for each product and category
- Create custom HTML pages
- Price list page acts as a site map
Customer Care (detailed description):
- Comprehensive customers management engine
- Customers' personal accounts
- Customer documentation and records
- Comprehensize customer search in back end
- Secure customer registration system
- Customer address book
- Customer can select between quick (express) checkout or checkout with registration
- Printable versions of all product detailed pages
- Export customers database to Excel file (CSV)
- Email notifications to customer
- Discounts system
- Customer discount groups
- Password reminder for customers
- Customers can select preferable currency type
- Online feedback forms
Payment, Shipping, Tax (detailed description):
- Customizable shipping and payment systems with "plug-in" structure
- Customizable payment types list
- Customizable shipping options list
- Accept check, money orders, credit cards
- Manual credit cards processing
- Integrated with Google Checkout, PayPal and major payment gateways
- Restrict/allow payment types by selected shipping method
- Flexible sales tax configuration
- Unlimited number of tax classes
- Support for US sales taxes
- Support for VAT
- Tax-exempt products
- Define shipping rates by location (by countries/states)
- Restrict shipping by location
- Real-time shipping quotes with major shipping companies
Security (detailed description):
- Password protected administrative mode
- Protection from robots and spammers
- Protection from SQL injections and XSS attacks
- Support for secure SSL checkout
- Sensitive information is stored in encrypted way (e.g. password, credit card information)
Reports & Tracking (detailed description):
- Most popular categories
- Product reports
- Customer authentification log
Payment gateways & systems (detailed description):
- Google Checkout (US only) hot!
- PayPal Website Payments Standard
- PayPal Website Payments Pro (US only)
- PayPal Payflow Link
- PayPal Payflow Pro
- Authorize.Net
- 2checkout
- CHASE Paymentech (Orbital)
- LinkPoint
- YourPay
- WorldPay
- PSiGate
- SkipJack
- NOCHEX
- HSBC
- TrustCommerce
- iDEAL new!
- ChronoPay
- Moneris (eSelect PLUS)
- Innovative Gateway
- Moneybookers
- SECPay
- USA ePay
- GSPay
- ePDQ
- Streamline eSolutions
- Setcom
- National Australia Bank
- NetRegistry
- eProcessingNetwork
- JCC
- E-Gold
- CCAvenue
- Protx
Shipping providers (detailed description):
- UPS
- USPS
- FedEx
- DHL
- InterShipper
